Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Tag: Social Currents

White Colorism

2020-03-10

Results from ordinal logistic regression analyses indicate that African American and Latino respondents with the lightest skin are several times more likely to be seen by whites as intelligent compared with those with the darkest skin. The article concludes that a full accounting of white hegemony requires an acknowledgment of both white racism and white…
“We Were All Just the Black Kids”: Black Mixed-Race Men and the Importance of Adolescent Peer Groups for Identity Development

2018-09-19

Our analysis shows that, unlike black Mixed-Race women, black Mixed-Race men’s mixedness is often constructed as compatible with the heteronormative gender identities that are constituted in racialized peer groups. As such, black Mixed-Race men are able to cultivate a sense of strategic sameness with same gender black peers.
White Colorism

2016-05-29

White Colorism Social Currents Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2015) DOI: 10.1177/2329496514558628 pages 13-21 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology & Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Perhaps reflecting a desire to emphasize the enduring power of rigidly constructed racial categories, sociology has tended to downplay the importance of within-category variation in skin tone. Similarly, in…